ideas for projects well 2012. charity auction tree or flower planting
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Ideas for Projects
WELL 2012
Charity auction
Tree or flower planting
Working with orphans
Add wheelchair access
Volunteer with disabled people
Create library or resource center for hospital, school, or
NGO
Trash pickup (with symbolic
action)
Renovate community center or other NGO
building
Paint fences or benches
with cool message
Paint a mural with an inspiring
message
Traffic safety campaign
Public awareness campaign
Photography/art exhibition
Recycling campaign
Seed bombs
Create a rain garden
or playground
Charity concert
Used clothing drive
Seminar or workshop on
important issue
More ideas…
• Practice Random Acts of Kindness• Stage a carnival or festival to promote community spirit• Run or walk a Charity Race• Plan an Ethnic Awareness Day• Use chalk to write positive notes in public spaces• Design a campaign to promote tolerance and understanding of
differences• Volunteer to lead a youth club• Share a talent through teaching a class• Make birthday cards for the elderly• Recognize veterans in your community• Decorate a school, shelter, hospital, or home for a holiday• Offer a babysitting service during an event• Play a game with children• Do a history project with the elderly in your community by taking
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And more….• Become friends with a lonely child, adult, or the elderly• Read books to children, the blind, or the elderly• Visit the ill• Make get-well cards for people in a hospital• Knit baby blankets• Make a cancer or AIDS mural to remember loved ones lost• Collect toys, stuffed animals, and dolls for children in need• Collect old clothes and donate them• Perform a play to children about an important issue• Create an awareness program with posters (poison, safety, fire)• Collect money for a good cause• Start a campaign against teen suicide• Start a drug-free pledge campaign• Start a neighborhood watch
• Draw and paint art for hospitals, orphanages, or shelters• Collect school supplies for children who need them• Start a study group• Help repair a building• Organize a neighborhood garden• Volunteer at a soup kitchen• Make a public building wheelchair accessible• Help clean gardens and parks• Help neighbors paint and repair their homes• Volunteer to teach a sport or start a team• Produce a neighborhood or school newspaper• Become a local guide• Volunteer to clean-up trash, especially after an event• Make signs for community buildings and sites of interest• Set up an art exhibit• Set up an informational display at a library• Host a community event• Clean up a vacant lot
• Help fix a playground• Build park benches• Build trash cans• Paint fences• Host a concert or film festival• Set up a recycling system• Make bird feeders• Start a compost pile• Create a grocery/medical pick-up service for the elderly• Host a dance• Have a sing-a-long• Paint over graffiti• Organize a self-defense program• Create and distribute a list of “hotlines” for people who might need
– them• Start an anti-smoking campaign• Tutor students• Create a TV or radio public service announcement about drugs or alcohol